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Sidebar: Online Censors Sharpen Tactics

By Danny O’Brien

As Deniz Ergürel and his Media Association colleagues prepared for a
meeting with President Abdullah Gül in June 2011, they searched for a
damning example of how illogical Turkey’s Internet censorship had
become. They didn’t have to look far. In an attempt to enforce a
sitewide ban on Google’s YouTube, Turkey’s Internet service providers
had engineered a blockade against all Google services—including the
mapping application that would have provided them with directions to the
presidential residence, Çankaya Köşkü.